Study Manager for planning and layout applications > Use NX tools to manage study
Use Teamcenter Manufacturing Access while designing a fixture
When you perform fixture planning using NX, you need to create, search, and load studies.
- Administrator
See the Teamcenter Manufacturing Access Deployment documentation. Your administrator completes the following data setup steps:
Deploy your environment
Install and configure NX, Teamcenter, and Teamcenter Manufacturing Access.
Convert legacy studies
Convert studies created before using Teamcenter Manufacturing Access using a workflow.
- Fixture planner
The fixture planner completes the following steps in NX:
Start NX in managed mode
See the NX documentation.
Search for a collaboration context using Study Manager, and review its studies.
Note The Study Manager is available to NX Fixture Planner users with Teamcenter Manufacturing Access configured.
(Optional) Create a study
If after searching, you do not find a suitable study, create a study using the Study Manager.
Load a study using the Study Manager.
Use NX Fixture Planner to begin designing a fixture.
See the NX Fixture Planner documentation.
Source: https://docs.sw.siemens.com/en-US/doc/282219420/PL20251212545240207.xid2214895/xid1417172 · retrieved 2026-07-11